Stories tagged with: animal fighting bill

• Tenn. enacts ERLC-endorsed animal fighting bill

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, June 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  “It's not just a step away from the cruelty and savagery of animal fighting.” – Russell Moore

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Tennessee has enacted an anti-animal fighting bill supported by the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity.

  In a public ceremony Wednesday (June 11), Gov. Bill Haslam signed a measure overwhelmingly approved by the state legislature that increases penalties for attendance at an animal fight and for taking a child to such a fight. The signing was ceremonial, because Haslam actually had signed the bill into law May 8. The law goes into effect July 1. Read More